NEWKIRK: WNIN to shuffle lineup

With NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” now canceled, WNIN-88.3 FM’s weekday schedule has shifted.

The station has added “Here and Now,” NPR’s new expanded midday program, which will air Monday through Thursday from noon to 3 p.m. CDT. With that addition, “Fresh Air” has moved to 11 a.m., and “On Point” is out.

“The Trend,” which airs Fridays at noon CDT, is in reruns for the summer and will remain in its existing time slot, along with “Science Friday,” which remains in the 1 to 3 p.m. slot.

Here’s the full list of what you’ll hear each weekday on 88.3:

4 to 9 a.m. — “Morning Edition”

9 to 11 a.m. — “The Diane Rehm Show”

11 a.m. to noon — “Fresh Air”

Noon to 3 p.m. — “Here & Now” (Monday through Thursday)

Noon to 1 p.m. — “The Trend” (Friday)

1 to 3 p.m. — “Science Friday” (Friday)

3 to 7 p.m. — “All Things Considered” and “Nightly Business Report”

On another note, this week we bid farewell to longtime WNIN president and GM David Dial, who has retired, and the station’s “Morning Edition”/”The Trend” host, Micah Schweizer. Schweizer has moved to become Wyoming Public Media’s Cultural Affairs and Production Director. WPM is based at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

We wish both gentlemen the best.

In other news this month:

STACEY MAY RETURNS TO TRI-STATE TV

It’s been more than four years since Stacey May left NEWS 25 to raise her three children, but the popular former Daybreak meteorologist is making something of a comeback.

She’ll be working at WEHT/WTVW as a freelance fill-in meteorologist when Eyewitness News’ regular meteorologists — Wayne Hart, David Heckard and Ron Rhodes — need time off.

3ABN PROGRAMMING COMES TO ROKU

West Frankfort, Ill.-based Christian broadcaster 3ABN, which broadcasts in Evansville on channel 23 (W23BV-D), announced last week that all of its networks will be available, in addition to over the air and online, through Roku streaming devices.

The channels, which are to be available in the Roku Channel Store free of charge, include not just 3ABN’s broadcast channels but three which are not normally available on air, at least locally:

3ABN

3ABN Latino, 3ABN’s Spanish-language service

3ABN Proclaim, a 24-hour preaching and teaching network

SonBeam, with Christian programming geared toward children

Dare to Dream, 3ABN’s urban-oriented network

3ABN Russia

Roku devices, which cost from about $50 to $100, are popular streaming devices. They are available online and in major department stores like Wal-Mart and elsewhere.

FORMER WVJS NEWS DIRECTOR DIES AT 77

Joe Bell, who worked as news director at Owensboro radio station WVJS (1420 AM) in the mid-to-late 1950s, died June 18 at age 77.

Following his time at WVJS, Bell served as administrative assistant to Kentucky governors Bert T. Combs, Ned Breathitt and Wendell Ford and later became CEO of the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.